But this is exactly what is happening to thousands of people in England because of cuts to public transport funding.
"The only public transport funding from Malcolm Turnbull has been the result of money agreed to because of privatisation of state assets or reallocations from other projects".
He has signed 28 modest "city deals" with authorities to bring local control over areas from devolved transport funding to skills budgets, while – potentially – delivering extra money from the Treasury to Greater Manchester as the local economy grows.
The new leader of the Greens, Richard Di Natale, has signalled that his party is prepared to negotiate with the government and consider supporting the measure in return for a commitment for public transport funding.
The Liberal premier said his infrastructure wish list included a range of projects, including road and rail, despite the Abbott government previously ruling out a role in public transport funding.
The transport funding differential between London and the rest, where spend per head is £2,700 for the capital but £5 per head in the north-east, knocks the arts funding differential into a cocked hat – but not before showing itself as one of the reasons why things are so complicated.
This investigation would help in a more equitable distribution of public transport funding.
The main aim is to achieve an integrated, comprehensive and inclusive planning to allocate transport funding on alternative transport modes in a most beneficial way.
Today the struggle enters a new phase, as a U.S. Senate committee takes up its long-awaited version of legislation to reauthorize the federal government's $50-billion-a-year 50-billion-a-year 50-billion-a-year 50-billion-a-year
Despite challenges, there is evidence that community transport funds and contracted transporters play a leading role in mobilising pregnant women to attend antenatal care and increase institutional delivery [ 43].
